I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. I’m an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. I have since written about music, media, and culture for everything from books and blogs to national magazines and academic journals. My books include Dead Precedents (Repeater Books), Boogie Down Predictions (Strange Attractor Press), and the forthcoming The Medium Picture (UGA Press) and Post-Self (Repeater Books). I hold a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and currently teach in the School of Communication at the University of North Florida.
Further Background:
After over ten years of making photo-copied zines, I registered the domain name frontwheeldrive.com in 1997. A few false starts later, it evolved into an archive of interviews and reviews that explored the peaks of theory and technology and the depths of the cultural underground. Following our interests and curiosity wherever they led, my small but dedicated staff and I kept the site up-to-date with in-depth reviews of books, films, music, and art from all the edges of culture — and interviews with the minds that created them. Though frontwheeldrive.com ceased operations in late 2007, I collected the best of its interviews in my first anthology, Follow for Now. Most of my writing since remains archived right here on this site.